Thanks!! Gives me hope to know they can just snap out of it!!
It's been so sudden

Did your daughter then sleep in her cot after the regression and co sleeping??

QUOTE=Rose&Aurelia&Hannah;8388350]We bedshared. Dd1 hit this regression shockingly!!! I mean omfg horrible. Then miraculously grew out of it at 9/10 mths.

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Yes she went back to her cot with no dramas. For our family bed sharing fixes all dramas/issues as in my head the policy is - whatever gets you the most sleep with the least amount of crying/bub being upset.

My son has done this at various times and then grows out of it as quickly as it starts. He's almost two now and I have found that accommodating the anxiety rather than getting frustrated (which is hard not to do sometimes) and leaving him to cry helps him get through it much faster.

When he was younger and doing this I would stay in there and sit next to the cot with my hand on him (he's never liked patting, I think it overstimulates him) and shoosh until he fell asleep or was happy for me to leave. I would then just gradually sit further from the cot until he was ok with me leaving while he was still awake. We did cosleep as well but not until his first wakeup in the night when I was going to bed as well.

He is now almost two and has been sleeping through the night, in his own cot, since about 17 months. He goes through phases of wanting me to come back in after I put him to bed and if I go in fairly quickly and just give him a quick cuddle he happily lies down and falls to sleep for the night ☺️. I've definitely learned that with him, just calmly responding to whatever his need is gets him to sleep faster than if I fight it or get frustrated.

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My DS was a terrible sleeper from day 1. We did cosleep (he was petrified of his cot since he was teeny - even now he hates being enclosed). We ended up with a mattress on the floor in the nursery. During sleep regressions I was there with him until they improved. He now sleeps through (he is 3 in March) and usually only needs me or DH lying down with him to fall asleep.

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